I agree, and his passive play was costly. He was tentative on so many big points and it was fatal. He has no 50% strategy between aggression and defense. It's all or nothing and that mindset is why Shapovalov is ranked #123 instead of top 10. But Holger is better than Denis, he'll figure it out... Hopefully.
I agree: Becker is more a high-profile Personality that gets hired for reasons that might have little to do with coaching.
.yeah that's why I am worried about his chances now.
Well, Djokovic was pretty successful during most of the time with Becker and Rune played well with him as coach too. Based on this it seems hard to construct an argument against Becker as coach.
You are impressed, but I can tell it still has some upgrading to do if it wants to reach the level known as
It’s not really about the time spent on court, it’s more like the intensity and drama that take a psychological toll.
This had me LOL-ing when I read it yesterday and again this morning when I saw the result
Fair enough. I was sort of implying that they still have it good compared to amateur players, who have to deal with no line judges at all, or even worse mistakes.
He's got a good shot. I still have Sinner and Zed as co-faves.
birds of a feather..
Are his hands currently wrapped around your neck? Could that be why?
I'm glad you're kidding. Let's see what the court says, public opinion being a harsh taskmaster.
He over performed last year on grass getting the choke from Fokina and frankly an impressive Dimi fell apart for him as well (and wow Dimi could be a massive threat to win Wimby this year). Holger's newly hyper aggressive game might work on grass. Grass won't take a lot of stamina.
Which would be equally unprofessional.
I agree.
You actually believe that?
Holger and mother lie and lie. Acapulco he was trying to break early in the 2nd set and won a 39 shot rally to get to break point; he was blown up for the rest of the set big time and never really recovered in the 3rd set. And of course he was done after 34 shot rally with Zed early in 4th set TB, and again pretty much got crushed from that point forward. I have Danish tennis friend and I get much of the tidbits they feed to the local media. This whole hyper aggressive game plan helps take the strain off, but his physical issues are worse than ever. Excessive training, yeah right.
You can't be the real and original Meles, who would never post something so dripping with venom. A two-bit imposter. Real Meles, resurrect your charming self.You actually believe that?
Cobolli is the reason why he had issues in the 5th set be Zverev, not some physical malfunctioning. How would he have even won the Cobolli match in the first place if he didn’t have the tank to go deep into the 5th? Doing spidey stretch BH winners and ridiculously explosive movement 4 hours deep in the 5th set TB?You actually believe that?
He won against Cobolli because the Italian choked really hard and handed it over to Rune. These 5-setters require endurance at the highest level and I agree, Rune comes apparently still short in this regard.
Holger played 2 four hour matches at RG and seemed physically fine at the end of both. Sure, he was tired but so were his opponents.
